Drew J. Strait
@drewstrait.bsky.social
Prof. @AMBS_seminary | Writing on political idolatry & violent extremism | Strategic nonviolence is the way | Author of “Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism”
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“At last — a book that critically examines how biblical interpretation fuels Christian Nationalism. The Bible According to Christian Nationalists is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and confront the theological foundations of this political moment.”
- @drewstrait.bsky.social
- @drewstrait.bsky.social
An ‘Essential,’ ‘Must-Read’ Book
When writing a book, a nerve-racking moment comes when finally sharing it with others to read.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“At last — a book that critically examines how biblical interpretation fuels Christian Nationalism. The Bible According to Christian Nationalists is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and confront the theological foundations of this political moment.”
- @drewstrait.bsky.social
- @drewstrait.bsky.social
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
The textbooks for my “Public Faith and Christian Nationalism” course are set.
I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes!
Auditors are welcome...
I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes!
Auditors are welcome...
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The textbooks for my “Public Faith and Christian Nationalism” course are set.
I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes!
Auditors are welcome...
I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes!
Auditors are welcome...
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👀 PRE-ORDER NOW: With Project 2025 in motion, the movement to turn the US into a Christian nationalist state is closer to success than ever. This is due to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the new face of Christian nationalism. Read about his plan: www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
February 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👀 PRE-ORDER NOW: With Project 2025 in motion, the movement to turn the US into a Christian nationalist state is closer to success than ever. This is due to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the new face of Christian nationalism. Read about his plan: www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
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I was pleased to share my thoughts with David Renton for this article. There are a lot of good quotes from others as well here, including critique of Prevent in the UK and critique of the treatment of former members of hate groups as experts. (thread)
Me for the @lrb.co.uk on how (not) to argue with fascists, bigots, and the people in your family or friendship circles pulled by them.
With thanks to @joanbraune.bsky.social Layla Aithaldj and Alex Roberts for agreeing to be interviewed.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
With thanks to @joanbraune.bsky.social Layla Aithaldj and Alex Roberts for agreeing to be interviewed.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
David Renton | How (not) to talk to fascists
The hope that every fascist is a future liberal or leftist just waiting to escape their present life is a form of naive...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I was pleased to share my thoughts with David Renton for this article. There are a lot of good quotes from others as well here, including critique of Prevent in the UK and critique of the treatment of former members of hate groups as experts. (thread)
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Anyway, it's been deeply depressing to cover extremism for nearly a decade, only now for sitting members of congress to tweet out the same sort of thing you'd have once seen on the daily stormer
July 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Anyway, it's been deeply depressing to cover extremism for nearly a decade, only now for sitting members of congress to tweet out the same sort of thing you'd have once seen on the daily stormer
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This is so bad. IRS claims it can override an act of Congress (signed by Eisenhower & Reagan) to let churches endorse candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
This is bad for democracy but even worse for Christianity, pushing partisan pulpits: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-partis...
This is bad for democracy but even worse for Christianity, pushing partisan pulpits: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-partis...
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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July 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is so bad. IRS claims it can override an act of Congress (signed by Eisenhower & Reagan) to let churches endorse candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
This is bad for democracy but even worse for Christianity, pushing partisan pulpits: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-partis...
This is bad for democracy but even worse for Christianity, pushing partisan pulpits: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-partis...
William Cavanaugh’s “Torture and Eucharist” has never been more relevant for the US context.
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
July 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
William Cavanaugh’s “Torture and Eucharist” has never been more relevant for the US context.
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"According to the new America First agenda, if you are not born in America, then you can be taken away, stripped of your humanity, have your head shaved, be beaten and be tortured." That's the country they aspire for us to be.
@timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:
@timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"According to the new America First agenda, if you are not born in America, then you can be taken away, stripped of your humanity, have your head shaved, be beaten and be tortured." That's the country they aspire for us to be.
@timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:
@timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:
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They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
July 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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With every bit I see about #AlligatorAlcatraz, I keep thinking of what @robertpjones.bsky.social said: "It's virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support."
BREAKING @prri.org poll.
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
New PRRI Poll: Six in Ten Americans Oppose Exporting Undocumented Immigrants to Foreign Prisons Without Due Process
Under the Trump administration, immigration enforcement has taken an unprecedented turn as immigrants, including asylum seekers and individuals with legal protections, are now being transferred to…
prri.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
With every bit I see about #AlligatorAlcatraz, I keep thinking of what @robertpjones.bsky.social said: "It's virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support."
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Our roundup is here early for the holiday weekend! It features insights from @robertpjones.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, @raushenbush.bsky.social, @drewstrait.bsky.social, @theb4np.bsky.social, @imillhiser.bsky.social, @michelleboorstein.bsky.social, and more.
Weekly Roundup: July 3
We’re wrapping up the week a bit early to grill some hot dogs and watch some fireworks.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Our roundup is here early for the holiday weekend! It features insights from @robertpjones.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, @raushenbush.bsky.social, @drewstrait.bsky.social, @theb4np.bsky.social, @imillhiser.bsky.social, @michelleboorstein.bsky.social, and more.
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Literally an open call for genocide. It'd be easier to write her off as an online lunatic if she wasn't influencing the national security policy of the United States. Who listens to her now?
Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.)
July 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Literally an open call for genocide. It'd be easier to write her off as an online lunatic if she wasn't influencing the national security policy of the United States. Who listens to her now?
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Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @drewstrait.bsky.social centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.
How to Challenge MAGA’s Biblical Authoritarianism
Below is a guest essay from Drew Strait, an associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana and author of Strange Worship.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @drewstrait.bsky.social centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.
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1st meeting of White House Religious Liberty Commission, being held at Museum of the Bible, opens with a prayer "in Jesus's holy name." That quickly shows that this isn't about true religious liberty for all but instead co-opting religious liberty for conservative Christianity.
June 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
1st meeting of White House Religious Liberty Commission, being held at Museum of the Bible, opens with a prayer "in Jesus's holy name." That quickly shows that this isn't about true religious liberty for all but instead co-opting religious liberty for conservative Christianity.
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If it feels like this moment is too much, as if it’s all going so fast, in some many directions—that is by design. Authoritarian seizure happens through expansive acceleration.
June 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If it feels like this moment is too much, as if it’s all going so fast, in some many directions—that is by design. Authoritarian seizure happens through expansive acceleration.
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In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.
June 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.
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A Democratic Mayor arrested.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
June 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A Democratic Mayor arrested.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
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BREAKING @prri.org poll.
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
New PRRI Poll: Six in Ten Americans Oppose Exporting Undocumented Immigrants to Foreign Prisons Without Due Process
Under the Trump administration, immigration enforcement has taken an unprecedented turn as immigrants, including asylum seekers and individuals with legal protections, are now being transferred to…
prri.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING @prri.org poll.
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support.
1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process.
prri.org/spotlight/ne...
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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This is one of the most disturbing videos I've seen recently, so prepare yourself...
I'm going to try to give some context for what's happening here, and why it should have all of us concerned about the spread of far-right Christian supremacy in America. 1/
www.instagram.com/reel/DKD4zhG...
I'm going to try to give some context for what's happening here, and why it should have all of us concerned about the spread of far-right Christian supremacy in America. 1/
www.instagram.com/reel/DKD4zhG...
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May 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is one of the most disturbing videos I've seen recently, so prepare yourself...
I'm going to try to give some context for what's happening here, and why it should have all of us concerned about the spread of far-right Christian supremacy in America. 1/
www.instagram.com/reel/DKD4zhG...
I'm going to try to give some context for what's happening here, and why it should have all of us concerned about the spread of far-right Christian supremacy in America. 1/
www.instagram.com/reel/DKD4zhG...
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If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican-led House approves tax bill after grueling all-night session, taking a major step forward for Trump's agenda.
May 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
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The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.